Thinking with AI: How to Use AI Without Losing Your Brain
Virtual Event hosted by Maven for Business
What You’ll Learn:
-Why AI can quietly erode the skills you rely on most: What the research actually says about AI and cognitive offloading, and why it matters for how you work right now.
-How to know when to use AI and when to think for yourself: A practical framework (SCAN) for deciding which tasks to hand over, which to share, and which to do without any AI help.
-How to build a smarter working relationship with AI: The habits and techniques that turn AI into a thinking partner, not a replacement for your judgment.
Why This Topic Matters:
Most professionals are using AI without considering its long-term implications. Research shows it can reduce critical thinking, create over-reliance, and quietly shrink the skills that make you good at your job. But avoiding it isn’t the answer either. This session gives you a framework to use AI intentionally, so that it works for your brain, not against it.
You’ll Learn From:
Sofia Pires
Skills Officer at The Alan Turing Institute
I have been researching the effects of AI in our thinking and learning for the past four years and leading training programmes for ten. I’m an award-winning write on the topics of AI, which I publish on my substack.
Fendi Tsim
Behavioral Scientist, Co-Creator of SCAN Framework
I am a behavioral scientist (PhD, Warwick Business School) and an independent researcher working at the intersection of cognitive psychology and AI-augmented decision-making. I am the co-creator of the SCAN framework, which helps people determine when to delegate tasks to AI, when to collaborate with it, and when to do without AI help. I also co-founded BehSci Meets AI, a London-based community exploring how behavioral science and AI can be designed to strengthen, rather than replace, human judgment.
Alina Gutoreva
Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science, Kazakh-British Technical University
I am an Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science and Head of the AI Lab at Kazakh-British Technical University (KBTU), Almaty. My research is at the intersection of cognitive science, AI governance, and human-AI interaction. My work asks a question that is increasingly urgent for professionals everywhere: as we delegate more thinking to AI, what happens to our capacity to think for ourselves? I am a co-developer of the SCAN framework, a structured approach to scaffolding cognitive autonomy in AI-augmented environments. Beyond academia, I advise UNESCO and the United Nations on AI governance, have consulted Kazakhstan’s Parliament on its National AI Law, and co-chairs the Cognitive Science subcommittee of the IEEE Global AIS Flourishing Initiative. I am also Research Lead for SANA-1, Central Asia’s all-female analog space mission.
Jason Vu Nguyen
Co-Founder @BSmAI and Human Behavior AI
I am the Managing Partner of Human Behavior AI, a consultancy helping organizations keep their workforce in the driving seat alongside AI. My perspective was shaped by a previous career as a high-stakes professional poker player. Since 2015, I’ve worked with game-theory solvers and AI tools to improve decision-making under uncertainty, pressure, and incomplete information. That experience taught me a simple lesson: the strongest results come when human judgment and machine intelligence work together.
This event is independently organized by the corresponding organization, but not in collaboration with OCS. Please contact the organization for further information, questions about your registration, or for other inquiries.
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